Post by Mutant 77 on Apr 30, 2019 10:54:40 GMT
I asked because there seems to be no clear answer. The original script spells out 2004 A.D., while the Goatley timeline says 2001 A.D.. Finally, the Planet of the Apes Wiki says:
The year in which Battle is set has been the subject of some debate. While Planet and Beneath both gave definite (if contradictory) years, and Escape was set in 1973, Conquest was clearly set in 1991. Battle, however, was much more vague. The characters who reappeared from the previous film hadn't aged much; the outline for the story that became the movie was set in 2000; Mendez says there has been 12 years of peace. The Blu-ray set's timeline says that this film takes place in 2004. On the other hand, Mandemus claims the Ape City armory has been his home for twenty-seven years, implying that the Ape settlement has been there that long. To allow for this claim, Rich Handley's Planet of the Apes Timeline places the movie's events in 2020.
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12 years of peace since the end of the war, not the events of CONQUEST which came before (1991).
The war occurred in 1993 AD or so.
2010 AD: The World War III "officially" ends, leaving in North-America ravaged soils and few thousand of survivors behind (Apes and Humans).
2022 AD: BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES.
Scripts and novelizations are not canon for me. You must give Caesar enough time to build Ape City (buildings, costumes, structure).